London: Three bottles of whiskey left in the ice of Antarctica by the British explorer Sir Ernest Shakleton more than a century ago returned to Scotland on Monday (17 / 1).
The three bottles of whiskey Mackinlay was part of the items found last year from under Shakleton hut in Antarctica. Hut was built in 1908, as part of its efforts that failed to reach the South Pole, a report by French news agency AFP.
The three bottles of whiskey on Monday, returning to their homes - Whyte and Mackay, the beverage brand owners. Whisky will be analyzed to see how to survive after a very long preserved in freezing temperatures at the poles, he said.
Wooden crates containing whiskey, which has a British Antarctic Expedition of 1907, froze at a temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit), but the whiskey in the bottle was still liquid, the news agency said.
Whisky is believed to have been inserted into the bottle in Scotland in 1896 or 1897, so the drinks are among the oldest in the world. Richard Peterson, an expert mixer at Whyte and Mackay, said the analysis will "benefit the whiskey industry."
"Never in the history of our industry to save a century-old whiskey under natural conditions and because the most severe conditions on the planet," he said.
"It's an honor to be able to utilize our experience to analyze this wonderful drink," he said.
Over the next six weeks, whiskey that will be analyzed, diendus, tested in the laboratory is closed.
Antarctic Heritage Trust to send the drink crates to Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, where the whiskey was thawed in a condition that is monitored closely, so that historians could see the inside of the bottle.
Whiskey bottle was very rare and valuable, so owners of Whyte and Mackay, Vijay Mallya, personally collecting and flew back to Scotland.
"Shackleton made history with adventure and travel, and I'm sure we'll make their own history when we opened the lid of an amazing time capsule, a unique 100-year-old," he said
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